ObamaCore: 'Why Johnny [Still] Can't Read'
The Systemic Dumbing-Down of America
By
Mark Alexander ·
August 27, 2014
"If a nation expects to be ignorant -- and free -- in a state of
civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." --Thomas
Jefferson (1816)
In William Shakespeare's "Tempest," Act V, Miranda observes, "O
wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind
is! O brave new world, That has such people in't."
It is those words from which Aldous Huxley drew the title of his 1932 novel, "Brave New World."
In that celebrated work, Huxley describes a utopian future in which a
central authority maintains totalitarian rule and obedience by
re-education -- replacing historical comprehension with a common core of
indoctrination, utilizing sleep-learning, psychological manipulation
and classical conditioning.
Huxley's utopian apparition compares with that of George Orwell's
1949 dystopian narrative, "Nineteen Eighty-Four," and that of Ayn Rand
in her 1957 work, "Atlas Shrugged," but all three were, and remain,
significant expositions of the loss of Liberty and its inevitable
terminus in tyranny.
